NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 365.00
$ 168.70
$ 196.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4905 points
861% significantly better overall score
510 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

94 FPS
81 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

79 FPS
71 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
8 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

62 FPS
54 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

64 FPS
58 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
6 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

7547 points
756% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
881 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

606.98 points
701% significantly higher Blender score
75.74 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

51531 points
728% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
6223 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points
517% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
3858 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

54640 points
575% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
8083 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

66552 points
756% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
7772 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

23824 points
604% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
3383 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

60120 points
651% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
7995 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

65170 points
690% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
8246 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s
270% significantly higher memory bandwidth
86.4 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

180 W
110 W
63% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

110.9 Gigapixels/s
646% significantly higher pixel rate
14.85 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

277.3 Gigatexels/s
366% significantly higher texture rate
59.39 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560
233% significantly more shading units
768

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160
150% significantly more texture mapping units
64

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

64
300% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 586
327th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce GTX 650 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1080 beats the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1080 at 180 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1080 over the GeForce GTX 650 Ti.

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